After the July 13 release of the final rules of meaningful use, providers all over the country are examining the 15 core regulations and 14 “a la carte” regulations to determine how and when they will ...

Another barrier to large-scale adoption of health IT began crumbling in the past week when three dozen electronic health records and their component parts earned certification for meeting meaningful ...

March 9, 2010 — When Congress promised physicians and hospitals last year billions of dollars in incentive payments if they adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems, it attached some proverbial ...

Electronic health records are widely used by California physicians, but many of their systems are not designed to meet federal standards aimed at improvising quality of healthcare, according to the ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued a proposed rule that will make it more difficult than ever for anesthesiologists and pain physicians to qualify for the Medicare or ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has taken another step toward fixing the maligned Meaningful Use program, proposing greater oversight for electronic health records certified to ...

Physicians Medical Center and Physicians Specialty Hospital successfully met CMS Stage 1 Meaningful Use standards with the VisionSH system from SourceMedical Solutions. Both facilities announced the ...

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Physicians near retirement wouldn't suffer a Medicare pay cut for failing to adopt an electronic health record (EHRs) system, and soloists would get a 3-year hiatus from this penalty under a bill ...

The definition of "Meaningful Use" in ARRA is one of the most critical decision points of the new administration's healthcare IT efforts. That definition will influence the types of products that will ...

Eight out of 10 hospital CIOs recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) said they're concerned they will not be able to demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs) -- ...

Motivated by improved efficiencies and monetary incentives, healthcare is migrating to electronic health records. While this solves the issue of physicians' sloppy handwriting on paper, and creates a ...